Shuten Order plunges you into a genre-blending labyrinth where faith fuels madness and time is murderously short. Our in-depth dive starts just moments after you’re resurrected with no memory and only four days to unmask your killer. Set in a fervent cult-nation teetering on oblivion, gameplay shifts wildly between detective sleuthing, stealth horror, escape room terror, and even doomed romance. Each ministry delivers a twisted flavour of truth-hunting, forcing sacrifice and snap judgment. If Danganronpa married Disco Elysium and threw the wedding in Silent Hill, you’d still barely scratch the surface of what Shuten Order has bottled.

Shuten Order Review Pros

• Awesome graphics. 
• 13.7GB download size. 
• Japanese voice with English subtitles. 
• 54 save slots, where 53 are manual and the other one is the autosave spot. 
• Text settings – display speed, display speed during autoplay sliders, along with text skip (all/already read). 
• Audio setting sliders – master volume, BGM, and sound effects sliders. Has a ducking mode that can be toggled to lower the BGM when the voice is playing. 
• Vibration can be turned on and off. 
• Stylish game from the colourful menus to the graphics and art style. 
• The cutscenes are a mix of Anime show style, in-game interactions, and in-game sequences. 
• Adventure gameplay. 
• Tutorials are displayed in many forms, from pop-ups to a manual to settings pages. You get so much feedback before doing anything, you never really feel out of the loop. 
• The game has a lot of interactions and conversations; you can have it so you click one by one as it goes, you can set it to autoplay, skip it entirely, or speed it up. 
• Excellent soundtrack. 
• Save and load when you want from the pause menu. 
• Gameplay timer in the pause menu. 
• Simple controls amd you can bring them up in the menu. 
• The game plays out predominantly on a 2D scene, so like a room or a location, a place etc, and you move a cursor around and interact with it. Other ways to play are that you are the character in 3D, and you can run around the areas and interact as usual. 
• Shiny sparkles show interactive elements within a setting. 
• I like the way any characters in the location look; they look almost like stickers placed in a scene. 
• The cursor will give pop-up text to say what you will do, so it could be check, read, or even open and close. 
• A Game that is perfect for handheld with headphones on for maximum immersion. 
• The areas you are in are big enough that you can scroll around and realise how big it is. 
• On the screen, the HUD will always show your current objective. 
• A fantastic group of characters who you grow to love and hate in equal measure. 
• The game has so much style and visual impact. 
• When you do actually perform proper interactions and gameplay, it’s satisfying as it’s quite impactful, really. 
• Multiple-choice encounters shape the story and are very common in the game. 
• Guess the culprit is a cool mechanic where you click into each accused party and recap their story and behaviour before choosing. It then lets you carry on and accuse them, but not before dropping loads of story, making you feel unsure about everything. 

Shuten Order Review Cons

• You cannot remap the controls. 
• No accessibility settings, things like Colourblind, dyslexia font, text size, etc. 
• It’s a Japanese voice only. 
• Games like this are slow starters as they build the story and set you up; it is no different here. 
• It is very easy to miss something important; you can go through the text log, but it’s hardly ideal. 
• All the interactive sparkles are fine, but they don’t disappear when you’ve used them, and they all look the same, so it can get a bit much. 

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Shuten Order

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Developer: Neilo

Publisher: Spike Chunsoft

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